Predicting which children will face ongoing mental health challenges and which treatments will work best for them is incredibly challenging. This is where AI and machine learning come in.

Professor Gustavo Sudre explains how he and his collaborators plan to use artificial intelligence to revolutionise approaches to child mental health by identifying patterns that could help predict how conditions like ADHD might develop over time, uncovering brain signatures that cut across traditional diagnostic boundaries – patterns that might be shared between conditions like ADHD, autism, and anxiety.

By understanding these shared biological patterns, we might be able to develop more personalised treatment approaches that look beyond traditional diagnostic categories, helping us match the right treatment to the right child.

New research at the Pears Maudsley Centre will use AI to help us move from a one-size-fits-all approach to truly personalized mental health care for young people. This work represents a unique intersection of computer science, neuroscience, and clinical practice – and Professor Gustavo Sudre is particularly excited about the potential for industry collaboration to help scale and implement these innovations.

Acknowledgements: This research is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Philip Shaw, and the interdisciplinary team at the Pears Maudsley Centre, with generous funding support from the Rosetrees Trust and the Pears Foundation.

You do not need any prior knowledge of AI or mental health to enjoy this event. It will be of particular interest to healthcare professionals, educators, parents, technology enthusiasts, and anyone curious about how AI might transform mental health care for young people.

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Speaker

Professor Gustavo Sudre is the Rosetrees Pears Chair of Bioinformatics and Professor of Genomic Neuroimaging and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. He is an expert in neuroimaging, genomics, and machine learning, with a research focus on integrating these disciplines to better understand neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He also sits on the Steering Group for the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Before joining King’s, Professor Sudre had an extensive research career at NIH, where his long-standing collaboration with Professor Philip Shaw resulted in substantive contributions to genomics and neuroimaging research to advance the understanding of childhood ADHD.

King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence

This event is part of the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence. Running from Tuesday 20 May to Saturday 24 May, the free, five-day festival brings together a diverse line-up of experts to consider critical questions about artificial intelligence in the context of healthcare, education, sustainability, policy, and creativity.

If you are interested in this event, you may also want to join us for:

• AI and Me: A Personal Journey to Revolutionising Mental Health
• Explainable AI for Health and Medicine (online)
• How Artificial Super Intelligence Will Solve Human Disease (online)
• AI and Healthcare: Your Questions Answered
• A day of health themed events at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, including the AI in Healthcare Showcase and the Generative AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Decision-Making and Patient Outcomes talk

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